httpd conf for multiple vhosts using mod_perl

[Robert Rendler]

On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 11:33:26 +1100
Tim Hunt <tim.hunt at its.monash.edu.au> wrote:

> We use mod_perl and HTML::Mason for the site.
> 
> So, the first question is, can we have independent environments for each 
> vhost? (separate doc root, different config files, ...)

Sure, that's pretty easy to do. One way is:

NameVirtualHost *

<VirtualHost *>
    DocumentRoot /var/www/site1
    ServerName site1.domain.com
    PerlRequire /var/www/site1/handler.pl
    DefaultType text/html
    <FilesMatch "(\.html|\.mc|^[^\.]+)$>
        SetHandler perl-script
        PerlHandler HTML::Mason::Site1
    </FilesMatch>
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *>
    DocumentRoot /var/www/site2
    ServerName site2.domain.com
    PerlRequire /var/www/site2/handler.pl
    DefaultType text/html
    <FilesMatch "(\.html|\.mc|^[^\.]+)$>
        SetHandler perl-script
        PerlHandler HTML::Mason::Site1
    </FilesMatch>
</VirtualHost>

And so on. Basic looking handler.pl:

#!/usr/bin/perl
package HTML::Mason::Site1;

# Bring in main Mason package.
use HTML::Mason;
use HTML::Mason::ApacheHandler;
use strict;

my $ah = HTML::Mason::ApacheHandler->new(
					    comp_root   => '/var/www/site1',
					    data_dir    => '/home/user/site1/mason',
					);

chown (Apache->server->uid, Apache->server->gid, $ah->interp->files_written);

sub handler {
    my ($r) = @_;
    return -1 if $r->content_type && $r->content_type !~ m|^text/|io;

    my $status = $ah->handle_request($r);
    return $status;
}

1;

You may want to look at this also for more information about setting such a
thing up http://www.masonbook.com/book/chapter-7.mhtml#TOC-ANCHOR-1